Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Happiness

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel